Shawn’s post made me realize how many tools we actually use to work with Silverlight. Silverlight 2 has only been out publicly (if you include betas) for about a year and look at all the stuff we can use. On the one hand its great we have so many tools already, on the other hand, that’s a lot to get familiar with if you are just diving into Silverlight.

Here is my list of tools, which is mostly the same as Shawn’s, with my own commentary. I broke it down into “must have’s”, “why wouldn’t you use these?” and “if it floats your boat”.